Nursing home settles over harassment

Eden Park Health Services Inc., an upstate New York nursing home chain, has agreed to pay $250,000 to settle a federal lawsuit over sexual harassment, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

A group of women and teens at the company’s Cobleskill facility said they were subject to a sexually hostile work environment, including propositions and degrading comments discussing sex and pornography. The lawsuit also charged that Eden Park retaliated against one of the victims who complained, and failed to take action after complaints were filed.

EEOC officials say they still don’t know how many women were affected by the harassment, which began around 2000.